About
Who runs Committee of 500 Years, what the blog covers, how articles are researched and checked, and how to reach the people who write them.
This is a blog and nothing more complicated than that. Nothing is deleted once it is up, so the archive is the full record, written to the standard of the line under the logo, Indigenous history, advocacy and the long work of justice..
This site grew out of a spreadsheet. James Reed had been tracking the subject for years, mostly to stop repeating the same mistakes, and it turned out other people wanted the same answers.
Every article carries the name of the person who wrote it, and every name links to a page listing everything else they have written.
James Reed, Indigenous history and policy writer. James has written about Indigenous history, land rights and policy for over a decade. He focuses on the long arc of colonisation and its continuing effects on Native communities across North America.
Sarah Okafor, Advocacy and rights writer. Sarah covers Indigenous rights movements, treaty law and political advocacy. She has reported on campaigns from Standing Rock to mascot reform and writes about the practical work of building coalitions.
Michael Clark, Culture and education writer. Michael writes about Indigenous culture, language revitalisation and community education. He approaches every subject from the perspective of what understanding costs and what it makes possible.
Nothing gets filed under three headings at once. If a piece does not have an obvious home, that usually means it has not been thought through yet. The busiest sections are history, advocacy and culture.
We are not the right place for advice tailored to your exact situation. Committee of 500 Years publishes general guidance, and the difference matters more than it sounds.
Every piece here starts with a question somebody actually asked. If we cannot answer it from experience or from a source we can name, it does not get published.
Nobody has editorial input except the people whose names are on the articles. That includes anyone who has ever sent us money.
The full process, including corrections and commercial links, is set out on the editorial policy page.
Point at the sentence. Write to info@committeeof500yearsofdignityandresistance.com or use the contact page. Factual errors are fixed quickly, and when a correction changes the conclusion of a piece we say so at the foot of the page rather than editing quietly.
